Word: remnant
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Thus was one more remnant of Portugal's colonial empire lost last week. East Timor is a mountainous patch of jungle and coffee plantations on the eastern half of the 300-mile-long island of Timor; the other half is part of Indonesia. The Indonesian invasion at least resolved a dilemma for East Timor's 650,000 inhabitants, who had been faced with one of three political fates: continued association with Portugal leading to gradual independence, immediate independence or integration with Indonesia. The generals in Jakarta decided on integration, evidently because they feared that if independence were chosen...
...that, they are expected to hold down jobs in place of men in the military. About 50 categories of professionals and technicians, including doctors, lawyers and engineers, are denied exit visas lest they refuse to return home. Also forbidden to emigrate are Syria's 4,000 Jews, the remnant of a community that once numbered more than 25,000. Jews may work for the government, but they cannot hold senior jobs. They must have written permission to travel within the country. Curiously, their identification cards, which all Syrians carry, list their religious affiliation as Musawi (follower of Moses) rather...
...frequently he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable-but not lavish-quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck-a vestigial remnant of Catholicism-and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash...
...October 18, the Jefferson Starship will be at the Garden. Joining the Starship will be England's Fleetwood Mac, a group which has gone through more personnel changes since its inception than the White House. Fortunately, one remnant remains--Christene McVie's belle organe which won her the title of Britain's Top Female Vocalist in 1972. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. but the open seating policy should be enough persuasion to get there at least two hours in advance...
Meanwhile, a lone Harvard policeman still stands outside Mass Hall every day, a remnant of the beefed-up security that immediately proceeded and followed...